The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.

The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.

FromKen BurnsKen Burns

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